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Toolkit Outline

Tool Kit Outline


Section 1: GETTING STARTED

  • Introduction and Welcome
    - Getting Started
    - An Ongoing Committment
    - About the Consortium
  • Definitions
    - Day and resident formats
    - Medical and camp terminology

Section 2: PLANNING FOR CAMP

  • Basic Camp Components
    - Purpose and objectives of camp
    - Medical board
    - Asthma camp organizational chart
    - Daily activities schedule
  • Finance and Operations
    - Budget worksheet
    - Budget worksheet (sample)
    - In-kind donations
  • Camp Site/Facility
    - Site selection standards
    - Dietary considerations/food allergies

Section 3: MARKETING CAMP

  • Marketing, Promotion and Fundraising
    - Camper recruitment and marketing
    - Sample camp brochure
    - Sponsorship and community support

Section 4: STAFFING CAMP

  • Staffing
    - Job tasks by position table (i.e., MD, nurse, RT, pharmacist, etc.)
    - Job descriptions
    - Camp Medical Director
    - Clinic Director
    - Camp Physician
    - Registered Nurse/Nurse Practitioner
    - Respiratory Therapist
    - Pharmacist
    - Staff-to-camper ratios
    - Recruitment techniques
    - Personnel files
    - Application
    - Reference checks
    - Background checks
    - Emergency form
    - Pre-camp staff orientation
    - Liability and insurance issues

Section 5: CAMP REGISTRATION

  • Camper Enrollment
    - Registration Packet
       - Registration Checklist (for office use)

       - Cover letter
       - Camper Health Form
          - Waiver Insert
          - Physical Insert
       - Medication Instructions
       - Scholarship Form
    - Selection Proces
    - Notification Packet
       - Acknowledgement and Important Dates
       - Parent Handbook
    - Building the Camper Chart

       - Kardex
       - Quick Reference Card
    - Day-of-Camp Registration Process

Section 6: EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT

- Camper pre- and post-test (beginning and end of education   program) What do you know about asthma?
- Camper program evaluation (end of camp)
  How did you like camp?
- Parent and camper program evaluation (1-3 weeks post-camp)   How did your child like camp?
- Follow-up health survey for asthma campers (3-6 month)
- Staff evaluation of camp
- Evaluation of camp staff
- Follow-up program critique


Section 7: MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  • Medical Guidelines
    - Purpose of asthma camp and objectives
    - Standing orders for asthma care and first-aid treatment (Acute asthma episode, allergic reactions, anaphylactic reactions, bee sting, bites or itching, blisters, burns, cuts and scrapes, earaches, eye injury, fainting, headache, head cold or nasal congestion, nosebleed, pre-medicate for exercise, sprain, sore throat, stomach upset, teeth injury, wood tick)
    - Emergency procedures
    - Formulary
    - Medical rounds
    - Chart contents and documentation
    - Chart review and care planning
    - Transcription of physician orders
    - Medication recording
    - Medication administration
    - Bedtime assessment and cares
    - Camper self medication
    - Rescue MDI
    - Special policies (trips out of camp, overnight trips out of camp, horseback riding, campfires and lice)
    - Exposure to blood-borne pathogens
  • Behavior Management
    - Strategies for managing camper behavior
    - Behavior management procedures
    - Camper Code of Conduct
    - Incident report
  • Health Services
    - Health service set-up and operation
    - Health service supplies and equipment
    - Medical lab tests
    - Health service staffing and shift responsibilities
    - Pharmacy set-up and operations
    - Respiratory set-up and operations
    - Procedures
       - Nebulizer
       - Oxygen Tank
       - Tackle boxes
       - Health service camper visit
  • Forms and Materials
    - Asthma action plan
    - Health services sign-in sheet
    - Camper progress notes
    - Cabin peak flow chart
    - Cabin care plan
    - Infirmary vital signs sheet
    - Respiratory neb treatments
    - Pre-med for exercise assessment stickers
    - Bedtime assessment stickers
    - Assessing breathe sounds
    - Letter to parent and health care provider
    - Belly-breathing procedure
    - Asthma visit sheet
    - Some possible triggers, signs and symptoms
    - Early warning signs of asthma
  • Asthma Basics
    - What is Asthma?
       - Clinical features of asthma
    - Medications and medication chart
    - Techniques and devices
       - Techniques for using inhaled medications
       - Pediatric guide to peak flow zones
       - Using a metered dose inhaler
       - Using a nasal inhaler
       - Using a dry powder inhaler
       - Peak flow meters
       - Using a peak flow meter
       - Nebulizer
    - Trigger Signs and Symptoms
    - "Living with Asthma"

Section 8: CAMP ACTIVITIES MANUAL

  • Chapter 1 - Anatomy Activities
    My Asthma
    Asthma Machine
    - Respiratory System Cards
    LUNGO
    - LUNGO Game Board
    Anatomy Hike
    - Anatomy Hike Script
    Anatomy Charades
    - Allergy Terms Cards
    Sounds of Asthma
    - Homemade Musical Instruments Ideas
    Bronchial Binoculars
    Talking Lungs
    Make Your Own Mucus
    Pass the Bronchial Tube Relay Race

  • Chapter 2 - Medication Activities
    Ideal Medication
    Medication Twister
    - Questions
    Capture the Flag
    Treasure Hunt
    Medication Scavenger Hunt
    - Medication Cards
    Silly Swim
    Fun Frisbee Fairway
    - Questions
    - Question Cards

  • Chapter 3 - Trigger & Early Warning Signs
    Trigger Hunt
    - Trigger List
    - Trigger Cards
    Trigger Pictionary
    Trigger Tag
    Trigger Ball
    - Ten Trigger Questions
    Trigger Tribute
    Orchestra of Early Warning Signs
    Peak Flow Bombardment
    Obsta-Cool Course
    - Asthma Educational Game Questions
    Pop or Play Balloon Game

  • Chapter 4 - Feeling Activities
    Hide-and-Go-Seek Feelings
    Letter to My Asthma
    Bucket of Feelings
    Inside Outside Mask
    Fish Wishes/Fears
    The Asthma Family
    The Feeling Forest
    Asthma Bugs
    Worry Dolls
    Fly Your Fears Away
    Angry Sponge
    Anger Oath
    Feeling Collage

  • Chapter 5 - Coping Activities
    Magic Wands
    Coping Chain
    Problem Solving Pow Wow
    Helping Hands
    Coping Weave
    Rings of Prevention
    Asthma Gazette
    Magical Journey
    Apple Action Pick
    Dear Family
    Breathing Battle
    Asthma Camp Carnival

Section 9: PARENT EDUCATION CURRICULUM

Building Self-Management Skills in a Child with Asthma

  • Parent Education Curriculum Guide

  • Parent Education Curriculum Powerpoint Slides

  • Curriculum Summary Report (including pilot evaluation results)

The Tool Kit contains many forms that are best viewed as either a Word document or Acrobat pdf. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.

 

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